Date/Time
Date(s) - 12/Apr/2013
Genre - Trios
Mazda Hall at 7 pm
(Free Admittance)
In a programme of Beethoven: Trio for Piano, Flute and Bassoon, WoO 37, Piano Sonata No. 30 Op. 109 in E major, Variations on Folksongs Op. 107 for Piano, Flute and Bassoon; Bach: Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830; Reinecke: Sonata for Flute and Piano "Undine" Op. 167 and Donizetti: Trio for Piano, Flute and Bassoon
Jonathan Bager entered the Royal College of Music, London in 1975 to study with Sebastian Bell.
He graduated in 1979 and took up a post as flute and piano teacher at the Akureyri Music School, Iceland. In 1983 he moved to Reykjavik to become a member of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. During the following four years Jonathan played an active part in Reykjavik’s busy musical life, dividing his time between symphony orchestra, opera orchestra, ensemble and recital work, as well as flute teaching in local music schools.
Jonathan returned to the United Kingdom in 1987. The move also saw him take a new professional direction: In 1989, following a course in information technology, he secured a post with a major U.K. bank in London. Alongside this new commitment he continued to pursue his musical interests with chamber music, recitals and involvement in London’s rich amateur orchestra scene.
In 1991 Jonathan moved to Switzerland. There he endeavours to balance his day job with musical activity in his leisure hours. He is a member of “L’Orchestre Symphonique et Universtaire de Lausanne” and, with his baroque ensemble, a regular concert giver in the Vaud region.
A frequent visitor to India, and Pune resident between 2011 and 2012 (giving a recital there in June, 2012), he and his two sons are delighted to return with this opportunity to make music across the country, playing concerts in Bombay, Goa, Calcutta, Bangalore and Pune.
Born in London in 1991, Frederic Bager spent his childhood in Switzerland where he began learning the piano at the age of four. An early teacher was the distinguished Jamaican pianist Oswald Russell. Frederic later studied with Pierre Goy at the Lausanne Conservatoire and then with Philippe Chanon at the Geneva Conservatoire. In 2005 he was awarded a first prize at the Concours Suisse de Musique pour la Jeunesse (Swiss competition for Young Musicians) in Lugano.
In 2007 Frederic gained a scholarship to study with John Byrne at Wells Cathedral School in England During his first year there he won the Premier Award as well as the award for the Most Outstanding Pianist at the 2008 Mid-Somerset Competitive Festival in Bath. In the same year he was also a winner of the European Piano Teachers’ Association competition held in Oxford.
Whilst at Wells, Frederic performed Grieg’s Piano Concerto with the Wells Cathedral School Chamber Orchestra at the Old Royal Naval College Chapel in Greenwich, then on a tour of China and Hong Kong in March 2009, performing at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, Xinghai Conservatory (Guangzhou), and Peking University (Beijing).
In 2010 Frederic was a keyboard finalist in the BBC Young Musician 2010 competition, broadcast on BBC Four. That same year he won First Prize at the Moray Piano Competition in Elgin, Scotland. This success led to Frederic’s debut recital for the Inverness Chamber Music Society in April 2010.
Frederic is a scholar of the Royal College of Music, London, studying with Andrew Ball.
Jeremy Bager was born in 1996 in Lausanne, Switzerland. He started playing music at the age of three, first with the ‘cello and then the viola before finally picking the bassoon (an instrument for which he showed immediate enthusiasm) at the age of eight. In 2008 he entered the Lausanne Conservatoire to study with François Dinkel, bassoonist with the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.
Jeremy is increasingly in demand as an orchestral player. In 2008 he entered the Lausanne College Orchestra, in 2009 the Orchestre Quipasseparlà (a self-run youth orchestra), and in 2012 the Orchestre de Ribeaupierre, Lausanne. In November 2012 he joined the Youth Orchestra of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany under the conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste for a performance of orchestral works by Debussy, Bartok and Dvořák. Their concert in Cologne was broadcast on South-west German Radio.
Jeremy is currently a high school student in Lausanne where he benefits from a special option for music.
